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From: jml00458@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jean Michael Liddle)
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Subject: Re: Bug was NOT in Screen Peace |?
Summary: READ THE DOCUMENTATION!!
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.041204.8490@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 90 04:12:04 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.160813.28084@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) writes:
>
>I second this, I cannot duplicate the Screen Peace problem mentioned in a
>previous post. Perhaps V 1.2 has fixed the problem.
>
Taken from the scrnpeac.doc file:

[1.2 Screen Peace 1.2 additions]

   Lots of bugs fixed!

      2. The problem with non-readable disks is fixed (if this happened to
         you, you probably clicked on a floppy drive icon in the program
         manager when there was no disk in the drive). This was a bad
         bug and I apologize for releasing Screen Peace with it there. I
         hope it didn't cause any major problems. The cause, in case you're
         interested was a call to the C library time() function in a bad
         place. Anyway, the DLL is about half its previous size.

The bug has been fixed in V 1.2 available from cica.cica.indiana.edu.  I'm
using SCREANPEACE and am delighted with it.  It has not interfered with any
downloading I've been doing (and at 2400 baud it sometimes takes long 
enough for the screen saver to kick in), nor have I had any problems when
I've tried to read a nonexistent disk in drive a:.

Related to the nonexistent disk issue though, I have spotted what I
believe to be a small, annoying, but thus far harmless bug in MS Windows.
When trying to read an empty drive A: or write to a write protected 
diskette from a DOS Window I suddenly get kicked into the FULL SCREEN
setting (i.e. my DOS Window is no longer a window ...) with the usual
prompt "abort, retry, fail ...".  Anyone else experience this?

>BTW, look for a REAL NEAT Screen Peace saver module from me real soon now. I am
>testing it thoroughly for a few days. Please e-mail if there is interest (Not
>sure how popular Screen Peace is because of the bad rap it has gotten lately.)
>
>I will probably upload to to cica.cica.indiana.edu, and submit it to c.b.i.p.
>If there is enough interest, and nobody objects, perhaps I will post it here.
>

I'm looking forward to your module.  I'll check out indiana in a few days!

-- Jean